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Mr Sweeney knows of my enthusiasm for safer drug consumption facilities, and we are doing everything possible, within our powers, to leave no stone unturned to achieve the goal of a pilot site in Glasgow. The short answer is that the Crown Office is now in a position to advise the Lord Advocate.
Digitisation and standardisation of data could be really useful in that, because the documents are so critical to how we forecast and measure delivery and effectiveness of housing sites. Those are the three areas that I would point to straight away.
In addition—without being too self-congratulatory—we must give credit to the Parliament. It is invidious to mention too many people, but I would like to single out Des McNulty, who managed to get the domestic effort target into the bill.
Perhaps some of the elements of equality or of the duties have not been expressed in the bill, simply because those things are de facto required of any bill or any public sector body.
The tender that will be launched will cover 16 sites initially, and there will be the ability to add additional sites to maximise the use of the £25 million of funding.
Fears about masts have receded but decisions on many masts in the Highlands and Islands still go to the local authority planning people, who have discussions about the best sites and often require a mast to be put on another site.
That person had been acting in a previous role and was the de facto deputy chief executive, so they were the right person to take on that role on a temporary basis.
When it is in the domain of political opinion and the expression of strong views, I refer to article 10 and the views of the court in regard to article 10.